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GUID Partition Table (GPT)

GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk.

GUID Partition Table Wikipedia

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Convert MBR linux disk to GPT to run Windows 10

I'm in a situation where I want to reformat my main SSD hard drive (500GB) to run Windows 10. Currently it is running linux (ubuntu). I have a bootable Windows 10 install USB, however when I try to install it, I am presented with an error saying…
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unable to convert MBR disk to GPT

I've got a MySQL DB running in EC2 that I've had to continually add space to the EBS volume, then grow it (using growpart/xfs_growfs). I finally hit 2TB and couldn't figure out why I could no longer grow the partition, its because of course it's an…
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moving/creating new EFI partition to new drive

In a Win 10 workstation I have 4 drives and need some drive/partition guidance. Disk 1 has the 100MB EFI system partition, a 2nd 1.8TB partition with data, and a 450 MB partition following that with no drive letter assigned. Disk 2 has a single…
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4TB drives only show as 2T in Windows server 2016

I have some 4T SATA drives in GPT, they only be detected as 2T drive under Windows server 2016, but they all be seen as full capacity = 4T under FreeNAS. All the hardware configuration is the same, drives are connected to SATA Ports. Difference is…
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install grub 0.97 to new 4TB disk

Stooped question but I cant understand why it not work. I have rhel 5.5 kernel 2.18. I clone OS from 750 gb disk to another 4 TB disk. I parted disk to 2 partition. 10gb sda1 40 gb sda2 I clone data from 750gb disk to 4tb by rsync. chroot to 4tb…
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Change name of GPT Partition (not label) under Windows from command line

I need to change the name of a GPT partition (not a filesystem label), and I haven't found any way to do it under Windows, except for this tool. The problem is that it's interactive and doesn't support being called from the command line, so no…
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How to create software raid on working ubuntu server with gpt?

i have this structure of hdd on my server: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes /…
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GParted shows Raid1 partition as Ext4, how can I correct that?

As I've recently bought some extra disks to store my VM disks redundantly, hoping for some increased read performance and redundancy in case drives fail, I started building a RAID array. I've currently created an RAID1 array with 2 disks (I intend…
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Is it not possible to use 4x1TB disks in RAID5, when booting from the same VD?

I've just got a couple of 2010 Dell servers. One of them has 4x 1TB disks. I configured them in the RAID controller to use all of them in RAID5 to give me 3TB of storage + 1TB for parity. There are no other HDDs in the server. I wanted to just have…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Server new installation can't get past Grub (Probable UEFI issue)

Attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 Server onto a newly initialised disk. Using UEFI, and a 4.5TB / partition. After installing without issue, on rebooting, the server will not get past Grub. Hardware: New Supermicro Server Hardware 6 x SSD RAID…
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unable to mount XFS after rescue

I am facing strange problem with XFS file system. Below is the exact scenario: I'd a corrupt 2 TB disk with XFS (I/O error), so that decide to rescue data from old disk to new disk. I'd run ddrescue to rescue data to new disk. ddrescue finished…
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4TB drives in RAID 1 with Promise SuperTrak EX8350

Two 4TB drives are connected to a Promise SuperTrak EX8350 controller with the intention of setting-up a RAID 1 array. Before attempting to create any logical drives, the capacities of both drives show up as 2199.02 GB (in the Promise Array Manager…
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Combining partition types lvm

I have an older disk setup that was made with msdos parition types and it appears that they kept growing the same disk in order to grow the lvm however it ran into an issue where it got to 2TB and couldn't grow anymore. The client wanted to attach…
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Installing RHEL 5.8 on > 2TB drive

I'm trying to install RHEL 5.8 x64 on Cisco UCS C240 server with 4TB OS Drive. The drive is behind LSI MegaSAS. Before installing RHEL, I booted off from an Ububtu 14.04 Live DVD. Using gparted, initialized the disk with GPT table, and few 20GB…
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DL160 G5 fails to boot CentOS 5.11

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.11 on DL160 G5, with 4 bays holding 3TB sized drives. The installation with default partition layout completes successfully, however on boot I get to a blinking cursor screen - it's not even reaching GRUB. I've tried…
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